Things That Smell Great and Taste Terrible

[JirinPanthosa]

Everyone I know who's into beers really loves hoppy beers. Me, I love quadrupels, I love dark ales and stouts, I love witbeers, I can't stand IPAs.

With coffee, for me it either needs to be really good coffee or I just flavor it.

 

[RoJoHen]

IPAs are my favorite kind of beer, but it took a while for that taste to develop. Now I look for the hoppiest stuff I can find!

 

[Deckerd]

I have the coffee thing too - love the smell of it but it makes me puke if I try to drink it.

My addition is fruit teas. The always smell lovely but taste of hot water you've boiled cabbage in.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Everyone I know who's into beers really loves hoppy beers. Me, I love quadrupels, I love dark ales and stouts, I love witbeers, I can't stand IPAs.

Yep, same here. You pretty much described me hehe.

 

[Rhaven]

I love my coffee and the best way to make it is in a French press. Smells as good as it tastes...to me anyway.

As a kid, I loved the smell of shoe polish wax. It was sold in little round cans and I would offer to polish my dad's shoes just to sit there and smell the darned stuff. I never tasted it, and I'd bet it wouldn't have tasted good at all.

 

[Third Nacelle]

I love the smell of rubber cement as it's drying.

Curry to me smells wonderful, but I've never enjoyed eating it. Same with ginger.

 

[Davros]

Coconut suntan lotion.

 

[NCC-1701-B]

my pills, smell like mint, taste like decaying corpses.

 

[Gary7]

Anyone tried the pinch of salt in coffee thing yet? I can vouch for it.

I can vouch for putting a half teaspoon of salt in the coffee grounds just prior to brewing, where the effect is a reduction in bitterness. Don't need to do this with really fine coffee, but when you're not drinking your best, the salt trick really works.

But with coffee... yeah, the smell of freshly ground beans smells so incredibly rich, lush, and delicious. While I enjoy coffee, the taste is never as good as the smell of the beans freshly ground.


Bacon not tasting as good as it smells? I DEFINITELY don't relate to that one--for me they're about equal.


Incidentally, there's one thing I can think of that smells absolutely horrible but tastes delicious: a durian.

 

[Khaaaaan]

Petrol.

 

[scotpens]

^^ I wouldn't say that petrol (gasoline to us Yanks) smells great. But I love the smell of toluene, the solvent that gives styrene model cement its distinctive odor. The stuff printers use to clean the rollers of offset printing presses has the same smell.